Get Your Popcorn Out, It's Time To Watch Alex Jones Make An Even Bigger Fool Of Himself Than Usual!

Alex Jones is not having a good week. Word on the street is he might be getting kicked off of Instagram -- one of the last social media sites that will have him -- for posting anti-Semitic content, and just yesterday, the Huffington Post published 4 excruciatingly humiliating hours of Jones making an ass of himself in a deposition hearing.

Jones is currently being sued by several Sandy Hook families for his very large part in pushing the theory that the shooting was a massive hoax created for the purpose of taking people's guns away.

In the four hour long deposition, Mark Bankston, the attorney representing Sandy Hook parent Scarlett Lewis, mercilessly grills Jones on where he got his information. He shows video after video of Jones saying things that were not true along with evidence showing that information proving they weren't true was available at the time of broadcast. It is brutal and extremely enjoyable.

Ever the conspiracy theorist, Jones spends at least half of the deposition claiming that every one of the videos of him talking was "deceptively edited" somehow and that he couldn't even figure out what he was talking about due to this editing. He and his lawyer, who repeatedly yells "Objection, form!" throughout the whole thing. It's fascinating to watch. This level of scrutiny is a whole new world for Jones, who is used to being able to just say whatever he wants for four hours a day without anyone there to refute him or point out that he is wrong.

One of the more fascinating bits of the deposition involves Bankston asking him about the "deep research" he claimed to do into Sandy Hook.

Bankston: Mr. Jones, I've noticed on a lot of these answers you've said, "Well, I'm just going off what Mr. Halbig said." So what I want to know is: When you talked earlier about you did deep research, what was that? What deep research did you do?

Jones: Well, I mean, I did look at the news articles saying they were being very secretive about the case, that a lot of things were sealed, which is unusual.There were lawsuits involved with that, and I did do research on Bloomberg putting out an e-mail the day before saying, "Get ready. There's going to be a big event," you know, just straight up, people waiting around for mass shootings or whatever. And just the way the media made a spectacle out of it right away is what really made me question. That scene like with the WMDs or babies in the incubators, I just saw the media so on it, so ready; and I thought that added credibility to it.

If you're at all familiar with Jones' schtick, he talks a lot about how much "research" he does and how very good he is at "research." It's his whole thing. And then he encourages his viewers to do their own "research" -- which, to them, lends his professed "research" an air of credibility. Why would he tell us to go out and do our own research if he were lying?, they think, because they are idiots.

But this is not "deep research." I did more "research" than this trying to buy a new hairdryer the other day. As Bankston swiftly points out, that email from Bloomberg never even really happened -- which means it was probably a difficult thing to "research."

Also, during the deposition, Jones claims that the reason he believed Sandy Hook was a hoax was because he was in the throes of a psychosis brought on by "the media" lying to him about stuff.

Bankston: Okay, Mr. Jones. You would agree with me that when some damage happens, when you break something, when you cause something to be lost, when you hurt somebody, whether it's intentional or whether it's a mistake, there's consequences for that, right? People should be accountable for the people they hurt?Jones: Well, sometimes people claim they've been hurt when they haven't been. So you have to look at the agenda behind things. ...

And I, myself, have almost had like a form of psychosis back in the past where I basically thought everything was staged, even though I'm now learning a lot of times things aren't staged. So I think, as a pundit, someone giving an opinion, that, you know, my opinions have been wrong; but they were never wrong consciously to hurt people.

Bankston: You said false things about Sandy Hook because it was psychosis?

Jones: Well, I'm just saying that the trauma of the media and the corporations lying so much, then everything begins ― you don't trust anything anymore, kind of like a child whose parents lie to them over and over again, well, pretty soon they don't know what reality is.

Then perhaps -- just perhaps -- he ought to consider getting mental help instead of spending his days posting racist and anti-Semitic shit on Instagram. Perhaps he should say to himself Gee, if I am the kind of person who gets psychotic and then says harmful and untrue things that ruin peoples lives, maybe this is not the right job for me and I should find another line of work.

Alas, he is about as likely to come to that conclusion as he is to draw a correct conclusion on anything else. Which is to say, not very likely at all. That being said, it's nice to see him finally being held accountable for his bullshit, and it'll be even nicer if the Sandy Hook families win their lawsuit against him.

Robyn Pennacchia is a brilliant, fabulously talented and visually stunning angel of a human being, who shrugged off what she is pretty sure would have been a Tony Award-winning career in musical theater in order to write about stuff on the internet. Previously, she was a Senior Staff Writer at Death & Taxes, and Assistant Editor at The Frisky (RIP). Currently, she writes for Wonkette, Friendly Atheist, Quartz and other sites. Follow her on Twitter at @RobynElyse

You guys, hi, hello, it is almost the holiday weekend, so we are going to share you a real video posted last night by "Doctor" Sebastian "Don't Call Me A Nazi" Gorka, that hilarious old knucklecuck. We guess now that he had to give up (or gave up voluntarily!) his Fox News contract, he just makes videos for the Twitter. Hoo ... ray?

Anyway, Gorka is super-excited that Donald Trump issued that order last night, giving Bill Barr all kinds of new powers to expose the Deep State for what it is and PROVE once and for all that the gremlins who live inside Trump's diarrhea are correct when they say Hillary ordered the Deep State to do an illegal witch hunt to Trump, yadda yadda yadda, you've seen these people huff paint before, we don't have to type it all.

Here is the video, after which Wonkette will either transcribe it OR we will provide our own dramatic interpretation. Which one will it be? We don't know! Would you be able to tell the difference between the two? We don't know!

We want to say right here at the outset that we hate Julian Assange. Aside from the sexual assault allegations against him, and aside from the fact that he's just a generally stinky and loathsome person who reportedly smeared poop on the walls at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, while reportedly not taking care of his cat, an innocent creature, he acted as Russia's handmaiden during the 2016 election, in order to further Russia's campaign to steal it for Donald Trump. All signs point to his campaign being a success!

So we are justifiably happy when bad things happen to Julian Assange. We are happy his name is shit the world over, and that any reputation WikiLeaks used to have for being on the side of freedom and transparency has been stuffed down the toilet where it belongs. We are happy he looked like such a sad-ass loser when the Ecuadorian embassy finally kicked him out and he was arrested.

And quite frankly, we were OK with the initial charge against him recently unsealed in the Eastern District of Virginia. If you'll remember, he was charged with trying to help Chelsea Manning hack a password into the Defense Department, which is not what journalists do. Journalists do not drive the get-away car for sources. Journalists do not hold their sources' hair back while they're stealing classified intel. Assange is essentially accused of doing all that.

Now, put all that aside. Because -- and this is key -- journalists do publish secrets they are provided by sources. That's First Amendment, chapter and verse, American as fucking apple pie and fast-food-induced diabetes. And that is what much of the superseding indictment of Assange unsealed yesterday was about. (And nope, it wasn't about anything regarding Assange's ratfucking the 2016 election or Hillary's emails. Why would the Trump Justice Department prosecute anything about that? It's all about the older Chelsea Manning stuff, the stuff the Obama Justice Department considered charging Assange with, but ultimately declined, because of that little thing called the First Amendment.)